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A new kind of therapy is finding its way into hospitals all across the country called Healing Touch, a type of energy medicine that works with the subtle energy / bio field of the patient.

Healing Touch has been endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association and is part of their ongoing effort to integrate complementary and alternative modalities into mainstream clinical practice. Touch is now part of patient care in more than 30 U.S. hospitals.

Almost all of us have to deal with scores of toxins everyday. That’s why an increasing number of health professionals are recommending that we periodically cleanse our bodies from the inside out.

Dr. Holly Lucille is a naturopathic physician and former president of the California Naturopathic Association. She tells us about how virtually everyone can benefit from giving the body’s natural detox systems a boost with a regular internal cleansing.

Sweat lodges are an integral part of the healing practices in many indigenous cultures.

Maka’ala Yates has been teaching and practicing Hawaiian healing concepts for over 25 years, and was Judy and Roy’s guide for a ceremony in the House of Purification, or the Hale Pu Lo O Lo O, a small hut made with sticks from the forest and covered with lowhala woven leaves. It’s both a physical and a spiritual experience that reminds us of who we are and that we’re all connected.

Iluna a’e is similar to a massage, but is much, much more. Iluna means upwards and a’e means direction in and upwardly direction.

According to practitioner Kapi’ioho Okaolani, it is to elevate ourselves to a higher level spiritually. Part of that spiritual focusing looks at issues that are deeply embedded in us and that cause our body has to respond in unhealthy ways. Iluna a’e uses the hands and intuition to perform basic maintenance on the body and release those blockages.

For Dr. Soram Khalsa, a board certified internist, acupuncturist, homeopathist, nutritionist and master yoga practitioner, integrative medicine is the idea of integrating the best of conventional medicine with all other modalities of therapy we’ve come to call complimentary and alternative medicine.

He believes tour consciousness as a nation needs to change so self-care becomes an integral part of how to stay well and promote well-being.

It’s typical for a person to be burning somewhere between 1200 and 1700 calories per day just because of the energy that it takes to maintain your body’s normal functioning.

One of the primary determinants of that is how much lean tissue you have in your body, and the largest lean tissue that most people have is muscle. Researchers at Purdue University say you even burn calories while you nap. In fact, your body burns about 10 to 15 calories an hour for every pound of muscle you have in your body.

Every second your brain receives 3 million messages, and of those 2 billion comes from your eyes! It’s no wonder that since our eyes work so hard that they can eventually encounter all kinds of problems.

Hardly anyone needs glasses when they are born, yet two-thirds of the population wears glasses. Jacob Liberman, an author and inventor trained in the science of optometry, says the modern epidemic of vision problems is the result of working indoors, and shows eye exercises that can actually improve our eyesight. Continue reading...